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UK news
Big tobacco must follow energy and banks to pay its fair share from its excessive profits
In advance of the Autumn statement next week the influential All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health are calling on the Chancellor to make Big Tobacco to pay for the shortfall in funding for tobacco control and public health | ASH, UK
London councillors call on Secretary of State for Health to publish Tobacco Control plan and reignite smokefree 2030 ambition
London councillors with an interest in health have written to the new Secretary of State for Health, Steve Barclay, to demand action on tobacco’s grip on the capital. Setting out concerns London’s almost one million smokers they are calling for the government to publish its Tobacco Control Plan, implement a levy on tobacco companies and raise the age of sale from 18 to 21 to protect young people | London Post, UK
Naloxone kit may have no needles – check your kit
The UK Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a Class 4 Medicines Notification to anybody who supplies and possesses a naloxone kit that some kits may have been supplied incomplete | SDF, UK
Illicit sedative drug deaths continue to rise in Cornwall
An annual review found in 2021 there were 12 deaths involving the sedative in Cornwall, 32% of the total number of drug fatalities | BBC, UK
Excessive Alcohol Consumption (Impact on National Health Service)
To ask the Scottish Government what additional strain excessive alcohol consumption is having on the national health service | They work for you, UK
Calderdale Recovery Steps rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission
Calderdale Recovery Steps, the West Yorkshire borough’s community alcohol and drug service, has been rated ‘Outstanding’ in recognition of the caring and proactive support it provides | Humankind, UK
Sale of Tobacco (Licensing)
I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make provision about the sale by retail of tobacco and related goods; and for connected purposes | They work for you, UK
International news
Where recreational marijuana failed to pass in the 2022 midterms
Nearly half of Americans will now live in states where weed is legal after Maryland and Missouri passed legalisation referendums on Tuesday | Independent, UK
Launch of BRIEF manual: toolkit on brief interventions in primary care to reduce risks of noncommunicable diseases
Good advice given by a health worker in a clinic can save lives. On 15 November, WHO/Europe will launch a new BRIEF manual that explains how brief interventions in primary care can reduce the risks of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which account for 90% of deaths in the WHO European Region | WHO, Denmark
More than 3 Million Youth Reported Using a Tobacco Product in 2022
A study released today from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 3.08 million (11.3%) U.S. middle and high school students reported current (past 30-day) use of any tobacco product in 2022, which includes 2.51 million (16.5%) high school students and 530,000 (4.5%) middle school students | CDC, USA
Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2022
In 2022, nearly one in nine (11.3%) middle and high school students reported current tobacco product use, including 13.5% of non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native students; 16.0% who identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual; 16.6% who identified as transgender; 18.3% who reported severe psychological distress; 12.5% with low family affluence; and 27.2% with low academic achievement | CDC, USA
Patterns of Health Care Use 5 Years After an Intervention Linking Patients in Addiction Treatment With a Primary Care Practitioner
This post hoc analysis of 5-year follow-up data from a nonrandomized controlled trial with 503 participants found that LINKAGE intervention participants, relative to usual care, were more likely to discuss substance use problems with primary care practitioners, use the electronic patient portal, and have relative annual increases in primary care use and relative annual decreases in substance use–related emergency department utilization | JAMA Network Open, USA
Ethnic and racial disparities found in buprenorphine treatment
A quartet of researchers, three with Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment, and the fourth with McGill University, has found that there are ethnic and racial disparities in the availability and duration of treatment for people with addictions prescribed the drug buprenorphine | Medical Xpress, USA
Vaping exposes users to harmful levels of particulate matter, study suggests
The use of electronic cigarettes is increasing, especially among young people. In the U.S., outbreaks of lung injury and other respiratory illnesses and deaths associated with vaping have been reported, but the short- and long-term health implications are largely unknown | Medical Xpress, USA
‘Losing the Magic’: When MDMA Just Stops Working
Some molly users report that the drug no longer has an effect on them. Here's what might be happening | VICE, USA
The DRAM, Vol. 18(12) - Depictions of people with alcohol use disorder in U.S. newspapers
Over 14 million people in the United States have alcohol use disorder (AUD). The effects of long-term alcohol abuse can have devastating consequences on health and wellbeing. As Matthew Perry discusses in his recent memoir, he spent half his life and roughly $9 million seeking treatment for his addiction | BASIS, USA
Studies Investigate Antipsychotics as Adjuncts to Opioid Use Disorder Meds
John* grew up in a family severely impacted by substance use disorders. He started using heroin at 15, and he has struggled with addiction, he said, for most of his life. He also experienced homelessness for several years in Kensington, Philadelphia, where he would buy from the open-air drug markets | Filter Magazine, USA
Blogs, comment and opinion
Alcohol duty explained: Cuts, inflation, and public health
Following a decade of cuts and freezes, alcohol duty is finally expected to rise in line with inflation next year. In this blog, Colin Angus, senior research fellow at the University of Sheffield, unpacks what these changes mean, and what the impact is for public health | IAS blog, UK
Smoking is back in candy-coloured disguise - and a whole new generation is addicted
Tobacco companies are pouring money into e-cigarettes and making them attractive to teens. Why is nobody stopping them? | Guardian opinion, UK
Promising efforts to mitigate the opioid crisis
Margaret Lowenstein, an LDI senior fellow and assistant professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine discusses the increase in opioid and drug overdoses since the COVID-19 pandemic | University of Pennsylvania, USA